Lunchtime Talk: Sources for Local and Family History at the Parliamentary Archives

Type:Talks, Seminiars and Lectures

Glamorgan Archives, Clos Parc Morgannwg, Leckwith, Cardiff, Cardiff, CF11 8AW

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Lunchtime Talk: Sources for Local and Family History at the Parliamentary Archives

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Take a bite out of history this summer with speical lunchtime talks at the Glamorgan Archives.
The archives will host five free lunchtime talks by colleagues from the Parliamentary Archives.

The Glamorgan Archives is home to a staggering 45,000 volumes, 60,000 plans and hundreds
of items. The archives’ state of the art building, which opened in 2010 and is based at Leckwith,
is designed to ensure historical documents are kept in the best conditions possible and has
been constructed to create stability in temperature and humidity.

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Directions

Road Directions

If coming from Cardiff city centre, follow the A4161 along Castle Street and then onto Cowbridge Road East. Continue onto Wellington Street, and then take the second exit at a five way junction onto Leckwith Road, signposted Penarth and Dinas Powis. Proceed under two railway bridges and then turn left onto Sloper Road at a traffic light controlled crossroads. Continue for quarter of a mile; as you pass Cardiff City Stadium and immediately before an HSS tool hire shop, Clos Parc Morgannwg will be on your right – there is a Glamorgan Archives banner on the railings at the entrance to the road. From outside of Cardiff, travel to Junction 33 on the M4 and leave the motorway to join the A4232. After six miles exit the A4232 at the B4267 turn off, sign-posted Cardiff City Stadium. Take the first exit from the roundabout onto Leckwith Road (B4267). Continue for half a mile, passing the Capital Retail Park and Cardiff City Stadium on your right. At a traffic light controlled crossroads, just before a railway bridge, turn right onto Sloper Road. Continue for quarter of a mile; as you pass Cardiff City Stadium and immediately before an HSS tool hire shop, Clos Parc Morgannwg will be on your right – there is a Glamorgan Archives banner on the railings at the entrance to the road. We have both car and bicycle parking for visitors.

Public Transport Directions

From Cardiff Central catch the train either to Grangetown or Ninian Park. Grangetown is on the Penarth line and Ninian Park is on the City Link in the direction of Radyr. Trains to Radyr leave every half hour, trains to Grangetown leave every 8-10 minutes. If you are travelling in from the North of Cardiff you can alight at Radyr and take any train heading for Coryton on the City Link, which will travel through Ninian Park on the way to Cardiff Central. Trains on the City Link run approximately every half an hour. From Cardiff Central Bus Station you can catch the service Number 1 or 2. These are city circle bus routes and you should try to catch the Number 1 to travel to the office and the number 2 to get back. Both these services stop at the closest bus stop to the Archives, and run twice an hour. Alternatively service numbers 92, 93, 94 and 95 all stop at the ends of Sloper Road and are no more than a 10 minute walk from the Glamorgan Archives.

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